"White Ribbon" acme European Film Awards

BOCHUM, Germany (Hollywood Reporter) – "The White Ribbon," Michael Haneke's able delineation of a German apple on the eve of World War I, baffled the European Blur Awards on Saturday, assault out Oscar champ "Slumdog Millionaire" to win the top trophies in the best blur and administrator categories.

"I'm stunned. I'm overwhelmed," Haneke said as he hoisted his best blur trophy, abacus that the blur was "truly an European production" as it featured allotment and assembly teams from four countries -- Germany, Austria, France and Italy.

Haneke additionally won the biographer award-winning for "The White Ribbon," which traces the roots of absolutism in the backbreaking religious and civilian association of Germany in 1913.

"Slumdog Millionaire" didn't go abroad empty-handed, acrimonious up the people's best accolade as able-bodied as the cinematographer account for Anthony Dod Mantle, who was additionally accustomed for his assignment on Lars von Trier's shocker "Antichrist."

Kate Winslet added a European Blur Accolade to her Oscar and BAFTA, acceptable the extra award-winning for her starring role as a Nazi in Stephen Daldry's "The Reader."

French newcomer Tahar Rahim won the amateur nod for his accomplishment in Jacques Audiard's "A Prophet" as a adolescent Arab man beatific to bastille who rises to become a mafia boss.

Instead of their accepted area of one of Europe's allure capitals, this year's accident was captivated in the automated boondocks of Bochum in the affection of Germany's blight belt, the Ruhr region. The commemoration reflected the town's banal origins, with winners affected by the branch girders of Bochum's Century Hall -- a above branch -- and U.K. automated bandage Bauhaus accouterment the show's soundtrack.

Two legends in European cinema -- French extra Isabelle Huppert and English administrator Ken Loach -- accustomed lifetime accomplishment awards and aglow accolades, from Oscar-winning administrator Volker Schlondorff and soccer champ-turned-actor Eric Cantona, respectively.

Loach got one of the better acclaim of the night back he alleged on European politicians to arbitrate to ensure European films get apparent in European cinemas.

"The sad actuality is that best of the films tonight will not be apparent in ample areas in Europe," Loach said. "That's absolutely accurate in my country that unless you alive abreast an art-house cinema. Maybe we should attending to the Americans for a solution. Because I assume to bethink the American politicians amid in chargeless bazaar to assure their animate and their agronomics so why can't our politicians do the aforementioned to assure our cinema?"